It comes after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said 65% of maternity services are now regarded as inadequate or require improvement for safety.
Reports into failings at Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent have painted a damning picture of poor care and concerns over the culture on NHS maternity wards.
It is signed by parents including Emily Barley, whose daughter Beatrice died in 2022 at Barnsley Hospital after staff mistakenly monitored her heart rate instead of the baby’s. “Our babies are too precious to keep on ignoring the reality that, despite a raft of national initiatives and policies implemented in the wake of investigations and reports, systemic issues continue to adversely impact on the care of women and babies.
Ms Barley said: “We think the investigations and local level inquiries that have taken place are great and really useful… “And we want that to include not just what’s happening in hospitals, but what’s happening around it as well, so at the regulators, in terms of governance, the way we learn from incidents – we think all of it needs to be looked at.
She added there was “a kind of cultural acceptance of failure, an inevitability, even when it’s avoidable.”
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